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<p n="294">Borough of Southwark<lb></lb>
to wit}<lb></lb>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo279">Parish of Saint John within the Borough<lb></lb>
of Southwark</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65001_date56">23d. day of August<lb></lb>
1788</rs>
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on View of the Body of Thomas<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo280">Billingham</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
Dead.</p>
<p n="295"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n295-1">George Purkess</rs>
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<interp inst="LMCLIC65001_n295-1" type="surname" value="Purkess"></interp>
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of No. 78 Freeschool Street parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo281">Saint John Southwark</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ140">Shopkeeper</rs>
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maketh Oath and<lb></lb>
saith about 11 Oclock Yesterday Morning he went<lb></lb>
down to Pickle Herring Stairs in the said parish<lb></lb>
that when he came down to said Stairs he saw a<lb></lb>
Man laying on the Gravel with a Handkerchief<lb></lb>
over his afore that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the deced was put<lb></lb>
into a shell brought there for that purpose and<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ141">conveyed to the Bonehouse</rs>
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of said parishthat when<lb></lb>
Dept. first went down to the deced he was quite<lb></lb>
dead<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
his Clothes quite wet and he appeared<lb></lb>
as if he had been drowned</p>
<p n="296"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n296-1">George Purkiss</rs>
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<p n="297">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
23d. day of August 1788}<lb></lb>
T: Shelton<lb></lb>
Corr.</p>
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